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Chris Offutt

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August 24, 1958 in Lexington, Kentucky, The United States

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Average rating: 3.69 · 2,493 ratings · 255 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Kentucky Straight: Stories 4.16 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Out of the Woods: Stories 4.12 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Same River Twice: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Good Brother 3.73 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt, Elaine Shannon, Danny O. Coulson 3.72 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Le Fleuve et l'Enfant 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	Two-Eleven All Around 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	Untitled Story Collection 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Michael Chabon (editor / contributor), Jim Shepard, Elmore Leonard 3.53 avg rating — 1,704 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House by Editors of Tin House Books, Dorothy Allison, Jim Shepard 4.00 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.”
― Chris Offutt, The Same River Twice: A Memoir

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